Congratulations to Professors Samer Al-Kiswany, Jo Atlee, Jeff Avery, Martin Karsten, Jimmy Lin, Mei Nagappan, Rafael Oliveira and Meng Xu on receiving 2025 Outstanding Performance Awards in recognition of their excellence in research, teaching and service. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

🏅Nikhita Joshi has won one of Canada’s highest academic honours, the Governor General’s Gold Medal. ⏲️ She explored whether constraining UI features like prompting or commenting can unlock user potential, revealing new technology designs. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo

Niloy Saha, Noura Limam, Yang Xiao and Raouf Boutaba have received the Best Paper Award at NOMS 2026. Their work introduces a sketch-based telemetry system that detects QoS anomalies in 5G user planes with greater accuracy and lower bandwidth than existing schemes. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/systems...

Wonderful news! Congratulations to Gautam Kamath and his collaborators on their foundational research on robust estimation being recognized with the 2026 Gödel Prize, the top award in theoretical computer science.

📣 I am hiring postdoctoral fellows in agentic AI at the R2L Lab @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social Lead your own agenda - systems that read, reason & act. Top-venue publishing, substantial compute, weekly PI 1:1s, and a real path to faculty/industry. Apply 👉 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32140

Professor Marina Meila has been appointed the Canada Research Chair in Reliable Structure Discovery. Her research focuses on developing mathematically and statistically grounded methods to discover, validate and interpret emergent structures in large datasets. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-...

Prof. Raouf Boutaba, Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been appointed the Canada Research Chair in Network Intelligence. His pioneering contributions to automated network management have helped drive the evolution toward autonomous networking. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/raouf-b...

🏆 Three computer science graduate students have received the 2026 Faculty of Mathematics Doctoral Prize— the first time in the award's history. 🛜 From advancing HCI to cloud computing research, our alumni have exuded research and academic excellence. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/compute...

Congratulations to PhD alum Ryusuke Sugimoto on receiving not one, not two, but THREE prestigious dissertation awards: the Eurographics PhD Award, the Alain Fournier PhD Dissertation Award, and the SCA Doctoral Dissertation Award. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ryusuke...

A well-deserved honour for Professor Jian Zhao, recipient of the 2025 Early Career Research Award from CS-Can | Info-Can. He and his team develop novel interactive systems and visual representations that strengthen the interplay between humans, computers and data. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jian-zh...

⭐ The Technovation Girls Waterloo Chapter held their annual Regional Pitch Event at #UWaterloo. 🎮 Students exhibited apps that tackled real-world problems, from helping immigrants find healthcare to transforming physiotherapy into AR games. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/wa... #womeninstem

Excited to have Kyunghyun Cho @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social visiting us next week at UWaterloo @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social to give a distinguished lecture! uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

This research solves a major open problem in post-translational modification search for de novo peptide sequencing. It will help enable the development of new diagnostic tests and treatments.

Sad but proud to send a batch of students on their next journey! @argymouz.bsky.social: postdoc UT Austin IFML Shubhankar Mohapatra: senior scientist A*STAR @viverson03.bsky.social, Matthew Y. R. Yang, Chris Trevisan: PhD at MIT EECS @xingtu-liu.com: PhD at UCLA Stats & DS 1/n

Congrats to recent master’s grad Evelien Riddell and the SE research team on receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE 2026 for their paper “Stalled, Biased, and Confused: Uncovering Reasoning Failures in LLMs for Cloud-based Root Cause Analysis.” cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-rese...

🎵A playable “floor” ocarina. A commentary on modern-day surveillance and technology. A growing tree with people’s memories as leaves 🍂 What do they all have in common? These are some of the artworks featured in the annual CS 383 exhibit 🎨 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/coding-... #UWaterloo

As courts struggle with the rise of deepfakes, Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that current federal rules of evidence may be too permissive in an age where fake and altered audio or video is becoming increasingly convincing and easy to create. www.law.com/legaltechnew...

U.S. federal judges are asking if new rules for deepfake evidence are needed when 98% of judges haven't encountered AI-generated evidence challenges in court. But as more real-world cases emerge Research Prof Maura Grossman urges the time to act is now. myemail.constantcontact.com/U-S--FEDERAL...

Waterloo spin-off founded by professor emeritus uses hydrologic modelling and real-time forecasting technologies to predict how water moves through landscapes. @waterloomath.bsky.social @waterloosci.bsky.social More: uwaterloo.ca/news/reading... | #UWaterlooNews

Professor Yizhou Zhang has been awarded the 2026 AITO Dahl–Nygaard Junior Prize, a major honour for rising stars in programming languages research. Congratulations, Yizhou! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yizhou-...

Vasisht Duddu @vasishtduddu.bsky.social is 1 of 39 outstanding early-career researchers from institutions across the globe to be named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honour recognizing his contributions to machine learning and systems research. Well done, Vasisht! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/vasisht...

We spoke with Prof Santhoshini Velusamy about her work in streaming algorithms and algorithmic game theory. In this Q&A she discusses her research, advice for aspiring computer scientists, and what excites her about joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/q-and-a...

👏 Congratulations to Yuzhe You for presenting her work at the Adobe Sneaks. Only 7 presenters were selected among 500 submissions. 🎨 She demoed Project Test Kitchen, an image generator that supports brainstorming and creative exploration. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/yuzhe-y... #UWaterloo

Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com has won the 2026 Presburger Award! This honour recognizes his exceptional contributions to theoretical CS, notably his development of computationally efficient algorithms for fundamental estimation tasks under robustness constraints. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-...

Happy #EarthDay 🌍 To celebrate, we are spotlighting our student, Enzo Porto, about his organization, Oceanica. 🌊 From beach clean-ups to surf simulations, Oceanica is empowering Peru’s youth to protect the ocean. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/beach

N. Asokan has been named a University Professor, a prestigious honour conferred by Waterloo to recognize scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence. His work has shaped theory and practice, leading to widely deployed technologies and new research directions: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/univers...

💉 #UWaterloo-based company Rapid Novor created EasyM: a non-invasive and highly sensitive blood-based test for myeloma. 🩸EasyM is more effective and less painful than the current standard of care, bone marrow biopsy. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/news/diagnos...

🏆 A #UWaterloo team won the Social Impact Award at CUCAI 2026, Canada's largest undergrad AI conference. 🤖 The team was recognized for their novel blood sugar forecasting technology 📈 🔗 Read more at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ai-diab...

Congrats to CS PhD alum Ricardo Baeza-Yates on receiving the 2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award, which recognizes his pioneering contributions to algorithms and information retrieval, and his leadership in fostering a vibrant research community across Latin America: awards.acm.org/about/2025-b...

Congratulations to Professor Matei Zaharia of UC Berkeley, recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing. He is a graduate from Waterloo, where he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics in 2007 with a double major in Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization. awards.acm.org/acm-prize

🪿 Anirudh Dabas built Waddleloo, an AI-powered platform that shows goose sightings on #UWaterloo and #Laurier campuses. ⭐ He hopes Waddleloo inspires students to leverage technology to tackle everyday problems, even the minor inconveniences. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

🤖How will AI impact the future of computer scientists? ⭐ Many #UWaterloo students and alumni believe that #AI presents opportunities, not threats. They also believe it cannot replace human judgment. 🔗 Read more at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

AI is reshaping litigation and CS Research Prof Maura R. Grossman is leading efforts to help courts assess whether digital evidence is real or fake, focusing on explainability, not just simple binary answers so courts can decide what weight to give evidence: www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

CIBC is supporting AI research at Waterloo for the first time with a $50k grant. The sponsorship supports William Loh's research on advancing representation learning for complex tabular data, while helping grow national AI talent for the financial sector and beyond: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cibc-fu...

🪳A new AI tool can automate bug reproduction tests, saving developers hours of manual work and speeding up software fixes. 🤖 The tool, Assertflip, can outperform most open-sourced BRT tools. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/new-ai-... #UWaterloo #cybersecurity

Dr. Ronald Mullin, the first graduate of the University of Waterloo and a pioneering member of the Faculty of Mathematics, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 6th, 2026, in Cambridge, Ontario. He was 89. Read more about Dr. Mullin's life here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/me...

Congratulations to Kevin Guo (4B CS), Kai Wen (Kevin) Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (C&O MMath candidate), silver medallists at 2026 ICPC North America Championship! With this second-place win they advance to the 2026 ICPC World Finals this fall in Dubai! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

AI-generated evidence is becoming harder to detect and courts aren't ready. Maura Grossman says judges are unarmed in the battle as deepfakes enter litigation. Through a new AI safety solution network, she's designing a framework to flag fabricated evidence www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/feature...

CS Prof Maura R. Grossman was on the “AI with Arun Show” to discuss how AI is transforming legal discovery, helping firms analyze massive volumes of documents faster and more accurately. She also explores the risks of AI, including bias, hallucinations and deepfakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k33...

Strengthening the research partnership between @uwaterloo.ca and @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social: Professor Ana Crisan receives $250k from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to develop MedDataOS, a human-centered AI system to integrate complex head and neck cancer data. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ana-cri...

CS Prof Marina Meila has been named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, recognizing her expertise in advancing the theoretical foundations of interpretable & explainable machine learning. In this Q&A, she talks about her research journey, current projects and future directions: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-...

🎉 Happy (early) International Women’s Day! To celebrate, we are recognizing our phenomenal women researchers and entrepreneurs. ⭐ From groundbreaking discoveries to accelerating patient care, #UWaterloo Computer Science women shine! 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/interna... #IWD #womeninstem

CS Professor Pascal Poupart and Professor Luis Ricardez-Sandoval from the Department of Chemical Engineering have received $480k in support from BMO and Mitacs to strengthen Canada’s supply of critical minerals by applying AI to the recycling of rare earth elements. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-...

#UWaterloo student, Luka Jovanovic built a website to track the speed of the #TTC streetcars. 🏁 Called the TTCLeaderboard, the app is set up like keeping score of a race, ranking the lines from fastest to slowest 🏁 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema... #toronto

The Secret Math behind the Music: Position-Contents Duality and Symmetry : uwaterloo.ca/news/media/s... #WAICL #GroupTheory

What if DNA doesn’t record only ancestry but also carries an imprint of the environment in which an organism evolved? A new genomics study suggests precisely that, revealing compelling evidence of genetic convergence across the deepest divide in the tree of life: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/does-dn...

Professor Martin Karsten and former grad student Peter Cai (MMath ’23) uncovered a subtle but powerful way to make data centres more efficient. Their research found that a small modification to the Linux kernel could reduce energy consumption by as much as 30 per cent. uwaterloo.ca/news/global-...

In The Walrus, CS Research Prof Maura Grossman warns that genAI could erode trust in the courts, and that Canada’s justice system isn’t ready for a world where seeing and hearing no longer mean believing. “You could make a deepfake of my voice in two minutes,” she says. thewalrus.ca/when-evidenc...

Maclean's: Edith Law, Exec Director of the Future of Work Institute, explores a future where students learn by teaching AI agents. Her vision is to use AI to spark collaboration, reflection and curiosity in the classroom. AI's power isn't in shortcuts but deeper learning: macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...

Congrats to Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou, recipients of the Computing Research Association’s 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards! They are among an outstanding group of research-focused undergrads from universities across N. America. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...